Syscoin has confirmed that Ryan Kennedy, Ex-CEO of Moolah, and his accomplice Chelsea Hopkins, were arrested by the UK authorities on charges of theft of more than 3,700 BTC from Mintpal. Syscoin, which lost around 750 BTC, is leading its own blockchain investigation.

FIDOR Bank AG, an Internet-based bank licensed in Germany, and the bitcoin marketplace Bitcoin.de have announced a new “Express Trade“ system that allows customers of either platform to exchange and trade bitcoin for euros.

Assembly.com, an online collaboration platform, has started to use the so-called “Colored Coins” blockchain technology. This allow engineers, copywriters, or designers to record their contributions to collective projects and later claim their share of profits.

Ledger, a French start developing bitcoin wallet hardware, has closed a seed round for €1.3 million from a group of French investors led by XAnge Capital. They plan to use the funding to develop security solutions for private keys.

“Bitcoin for Miles”, part of the Delaware-based Bitcoins Inc., is now offering to buy bonus miles for bitcoins. You can get up to 0.017 bitcoins for each mile. This is a rare case: usually bitcoin companies do not buy bonus and gift points and sell them instead.